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updated November 17, 2009
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Professor is Member of Academic Team Sharing National Award
for Educational Software
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology played a significant role in the
development of academic courseware that recently earned the 2009 Premier
Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware from the National
Engineering Education Delivery System and Engineering Pathway.
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Innovative Educator: Richard Layton, associate professor of
mechanical engineering, is director of Rose-Hulman’s Center for the
Practice and Scholarship of Education. |
The award, which recognizes high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed
to enhance engineering education, was announced at the Frontiers in
Education Conference in San Antonio, Texas, on October 20.
Mechanical engineering professor Richard Layton was among a team of seven
college professors developing the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member
Effectiveness (CATME)/Team-Maker system, an integrated and well-tested
system that helps manage teams in engineering courses. The courseware
assists faculty in managing teamwork by customizing the student experience,
setting criteria and objectives for the team, and learning about their
teams’ experiences. Team-Maker is a tool for forming teams based on
students’ schedules, preferences, skill areas, and instructors’ learning
goals.
CATME enables self- and peer-evaluation of team-member contributions to a
team based on behaviors that research has shown to be important for
effective team functioning. The web-based CATME/Team-Maker Tools collect
survey data from students, prepare reports for instructors, and provide
individual feedback to students. The online system provides ease of use,
simplicity of data collection, confidentiality, and timeliness of feedback,
and it also flags problematic rating patterns that suggest a need for
instructor intervention.
CATME also provides students with tools that help them perform well on a
team by providing incentives to contribute to the team, feedback about their
performance, and suggests steps to improve their performance.
CATME/Team-Maker are built upon a sound theory of teamwork that has been
well tested both in terms of validity and reliability, and have been
demonstrated to help students learn and perform better.
Dramatic growth in the number of users of CATME and Team-Maker since their
release shows that these tools meet instructors’ needs for managing teams
and assessing team skills. As of June 2009, there are 502 instructors and
20,035 students registered to use the system at 145 different institutions.
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Helping Students: Professor Richard Layton helps Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology students understand how to analyze and design engineering
systems. |
Besides teaching, Layton also serves as director of Rose-Hulman’s Center for
the Practice and Scholarship of Education.
Joining Layton in developing the educational tool were Matthew Ohland of
Purdue University, Misty Loughy of Georgia Southern University, Lisa Bullard
and Richard Felder of North Carolina State University, Cynthia J. Finelli of
the University of Michigan, Douglas Schmucker of Zahl-Ford, Inc., and Hal
Pomeranz of Deer-Run Associates.
The prototype of the original, stand-alone Team-Maker system was developed
by Rose-Hulman students, under the supervision of Layton and former computer
science and software engineering professor Mark Ardis. The prototype was
supported by a mini-grant from the Educational Research and Methods Division
of the American Society of Engineering Education, along with matching funds
from Rose-Hulman. With support of the National Science Foundation, the
prototype was rewritten and merged with the CATME peer-evaluation system.
For more information on the Premier Award visit
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/premier/2010/index.jhtml.
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